Association of CD44 polymorphisms and susceptibility to HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma in the Chinese population.

abstract：:Adenosine deaminase (ADA) exists as two isoenzymes, ADA(1) and ADA(2). It appears that the ADA(2) isoenzyme originates mainly from monocytes and macrophages. In tuberculous pleural effusions most of the ADA activity consists of ADA(2). The aim of this prospective study was to analyse ADA isoenzymes in the CSF of patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Schutte CM,Ungerer JP,du Plessis H,van der Meyden CH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The GABA-A receptor signaling pathway regulates proliferation, differentiation, apoptosis, and responses to overt DNA damage during embryonic development. METHODS:To analyze the gene expression after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and in in vivo mouse embryos, the global pattern of gene expression ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhang Z,Wang T,Huang J,Huang Y,Zhang Q

更新日期：2020-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ninety semen samples from male patients were studied. They were classified into 4 different groups; normospermic fertile, oligospermia, asthenospermia, and oligoasthenospermia. In addition to routine semen analysis, the hypo-osmotic swelling test was done for all these samples, measuring total protein and specific gra...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： al-Mogazy HM,al-Khadra S,Kenawy G,al-Zeftawy A,Mostafa T,Attia A,Attia AM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is believed that boundary compositions of matrix proteins might play a role in stone formation; however, few proteomic studies concerning matrix proteins in urinary stones have been conducted. In this study, we extracted low molecular weight proteins from calcium oxalate stones and measured their characteristic pat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Chen WC,Lai CC,Tsai Y,Lin WY,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sialylation of serum proteins and lipids changes in liver diseases of different etiologies and could change the total sialic acid (TSA), lipid-bound SA (LSA), and free SA (FSA) levels in the sera. However, little is known of the relationship of serum SAs concentrations and the severity of liver disease. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Chrostek L,Supronowicz L,Panasiuk A,Cylwik B,Gruszewska E,Szmitkowski M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella is an important foodborne pathogen that causes acute diarrhea in humans worldwide. This study analyzed the relationships of serotypes and antibiotic resistance with virulence genes of Salmonella isolated from children with salmonellosis. METHODS:Serological typing was performed using the slide-ag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yue M,Li X,Liu D,Hu X

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida dubliniensis is a recently described pathogenic species which shares many phenotypic features with Candida albicans and therefore, may be misidentified in microbiological laboratories. Because molecular methods can be onerous and unfeasible in routine mycological laboratories with restricted budgets such as th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： de Loreto ES,Pozzatti P,Alves Scheid L,Santurio D,Morais Santurio J,Alves SH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) has been widely recommended as the first-line drug for primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) in the current guidelines. However, its therapeutic effects are poor in nearly one-third of patients. The early identification and intervention of these patients is crucial for delaying diseas...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Tian S,Liu Y,Sun K,Zhou X,Ma S,Zhang M,Zhou X,Wang L,Han Y

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the reactive oxygen species and antioxidant system. In this study, total oxidative stress (TOS) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) were investigated with a new and practical method in childhood iron-deficiency anemia. METHOD:During the study period 80 children betw...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Akça H,Polat A,Koca C

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Essential hypertension (EH) is a high prevalence disease facing a public health challenge. People were little known about the genetics of diagnosing the cause of EH. Circular RNAs that have a continuous cycle of covalent closure, without affected by RNA exonuclease, and are more stable and hard to degrade may invo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Bao X,He X,Zheng S,Sun J,Luo Y,Tan R,Zhao J,Zhong F,Zhang L

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the plasma of patients with both malignant and benign breast lesions was analyzed to determine whether the findings may have diagnostic and prognostic implications and to analyze the association between the levels of cfDNA and prognostic parameters. METHODS:Plasma samples were obtai...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hashad D,Sorour A,Ghazal A,Talaat I

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric cancer (GC) is one of the global mortality diseases and has a poor prognosis due to the lack of ideal tumor biomarkers. Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are an abundant kind of endogenous RNAs that recently are found play a crucial role in the cancer occurrence and development. Nevertheless, little is known ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yu X,Ding H,Yang L,Yu Y,Zhou J,Yan Z,Guo J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is an emerging problem all over the world. Because NAFLD and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) are both closely related with insulin resistance, it would be necessary to determine the rate of presence of NAFLD in PCOS patients. So, this study aimed to investigate the u...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Caner S,Altınbaş A,Saykı M,Büyükcam F,Yılmaz B,Çakal E,Çoban Ş,Delibaşı T

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary heart disease (CHD) is primarily caused by atherosclerosis of coronary arteries. It is largely an inflammatory disease of the vascular wall. The inflammation is related to DNA methylation. Angiopoietin-like protein 2 (ANGPTL2) has various functions in several chronic inflammatory diseases. Macrophag...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhou J,Chen L,Yang X,Huang X,Wang Z,Peng P,Lian J

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Today, the genetic and genomic research entered in a new era of high-throughput genotyping technology. However, mutagenic polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) is still a choice of genotyping method in molecular epidemiological research. It has been extensively used fo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sharma N,Awasthi S,Phadke SR

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is known to vary considerably across the world. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of MetS in RA patients from western Mexico and to analyze the interrelation of the MetS components with the clinical variables of RA. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： García-Chagollán M,Hernández-Martínez SE,Rojas-Romero AE,Muñoz-Valle JF,Sigala-Arellano R,Cerpa-Cruz S,Morales-Núñez JJ,Lomelí-Nieto JA,Macedo Ojeda G,Hernández-Bello J

更新日期：2020-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is one of the major infectious diseases in which CD4+ T helper (Th) cells play a crucial role. Th9 cells are a distinct subset of CD4+ Th cells with important physiological functions. OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to assess the potential involvement of Th9 cells in the inadequate immun...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Cui M,Lv Y,Lu J,Zhang W,Duan Y,Huang Y,Yang L,Li M,Liu W,Liu D,Yan H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Blood gas analysis and blood lactate measurement have important roles in patient management. Point-of-care (POC) testing simplifies and provides rapid blood gas and lactate measurements. This study aimed to compare pH, pCO2 , pO2 , and lactate measurements between a POC device and a benchtop blood gas analyz...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Indrasari ND,Wonohutomo JP,Sukartini N

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery disease (CAD) was the second leading cause of death for the past 3 years in Taiwan. The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is considered a new risk factor of CAD because investigations show that the levels and bioactivity of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 (where IGFBP is insulin-like growth factor-bi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lin HL,Ueng KC,Wang HL,Chen TP,Yang SF,Chu SC,Hsieh YS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenic role of immune-mediated mechanisms in chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has not yet been elucidated. In this study, we report different cytokine expression profiles from hemodialysis (HD) and non-HD HCV (+) patients. IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, TNF-alpha, and TGF-beta1 serum levels, and liver bi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Spanakis NE,Garinis GA,Alexopoulos EC,Patrinos GP,Menounos PG,Sklavounou A,Manolis EN,Gorgoulis VG,Valis D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:CD4(+) cell count, the common HIV infection screening test, is costly and unable to differentiate HIV monoinfection from its concurrent infection with hepatitis B or C virus. We aimed to ascertain diagnostic value of serum adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity as a useful tool to differentiate HIV mono- and co-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Abdi M,Rahbari R,Khatooni Z,Naseri N,Najafi A,Khodadadi I

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron overload is a major complication in patients with hemoglobin H (Hb H) disease and causes damage of tissues. METHODS:We investigated 26 Hb H patients and 75 controls to evaluate their oxidative stress and antioxidant statuses. RESULTS:There were significantly increased levels of superoxide anion in leu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Chiou SS,Tsao CJ,Tsai SM,Wu YR,Liao YM,Lin PC,Tsai LY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The technique that allows for in situ detection of PCR-amplified DNA and cDNA has improved remarkably quickly over the past 5 years. As of this writing, one can expect good results after a relatively quick "learning curve." The technique demands some skill in working with glass slides and cells/tissues. Thus, I recomm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Nuovo GJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Essential trace elements are vital to human health. In this study, our aim was to establish reference intervals of and to evaluate relationships among Ca, Fe, Cu, Mg, and Zn for children. METHODS:We collected blood samples of 3210 children aged 0-14 years from Lu'an, China, and concentrations of the above e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhai R,Zhang M,Liu J,Guang H,Li B,Chen D,Zhang S

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-lymphocyte function was investigated in a group of eight patients with polycythemia vera (PV) and 13 normals. Responsiveness of T-cells to stimulation by mitogen was significantly impaired in the PV patients (p = .02). Analysis of immune cell subpopulation composition by assessment of cell surface phenotype did not ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Paul CC,Baumann MA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modification of the assay system for peroxidase activity in human mixed saliva using 2,2'-azinobis-(-ethylbenzthiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) (ABTS) as the substrate is reported. The modifications permit differentiation between glandular peroxidase (SPX) and myeloperoxidase (MPX) activity. In addition, factors endogeno...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Venezie RD,Jenzano JW,Lundblad RL

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are strongly associated with the development of cervical carcinoma, and the distribution of HPV genotypes varies regionally. METHODS:To investigate the distribution characteristics of different genotypes of HPV infection in women in Wuhan, China, a total of 13 775 patients were...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Xiang F,Guan Q,Liu X,Xiao H,Xia Q,Liu X,Sun H,Song X,Zhong Y,Yuan CH,Xiang Y

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Delta neutrophil index (DNI) is a new inflammatory marker and the present study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of the DNI for the presence of a perforation in elderly with acute appendicitis. METHODS:This retrospective observational study was conducted on 108 consecutive elderly patients (≥65 years ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Shin DH,Cho YS,Kim YS,Ahn HC,Oh YT,Park SO,Won MH,Cho JH,Kim YM,Seo JY,Lee YH

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastric carcinoma (GC) is a familiar carcinoma and serious threat to human health. We investigated the efficacy and mechanism of circular RNA hsa_circ_0001649 on the growth, migration, and invasion of GC cells. METHODS:microRNA (miR)-20a and hsa_circ_0001649 expression was investigated by RT-qPCR and was ch...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sun H,Wang Q,Yuan G,Quan J,Dong D,Lun Y,Sun B

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to investigate the value of biochemical profile of cyst fluid and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in differentiating hepatic hydatid cysts (HCs) from liver simple cysts. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Forty-six patients underwent MR imaging. Twenty-nine patients had 29 hydatid cysts and 17 pa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Shanshan W,Hui L,Yan L,Li W,Yongfang R,Yan W,Kader M,Wenxiao J

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00